For #SongSheetSaturday - AJ Mills & Bennett Scott's 'Fall In & Follow Me' (1910) - 'I know the way to go, I'll take you for a spree; You do as I do and you'll do right, Fall in and follow me!' It seems an appropriate sentiment the day AFTER #MusicHallVarietyDay 🎶
If you had a go at our #MusicHallVarietyDay WORDSEARCH yesterday, then here are the answers! Did anyone manage to find them all?
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Wonderful end to an excellent #musichallvarietyday 2025!
Laughs a plenty at ‘Duck Soup’ and a splendid intro by Matthew Jarron touching on Chaplin, Keaton, Dan Leno & more! (I did a bit too!)
Much thanks to @musichallsociety.bsky.social for sponsoring tonight’s screening!
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Evan’s Supper Rooms once languished in Covent Garden along from where the Apple Store 🍏 now sits.
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Women were not permitted in the audience for many years!
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That’s a wrap!
Thanks for being part of #MusicHallVarietyDay #MHVD2025 — we’ve had a blast! Same time, same place next year. Keep the stories coming! We have loved seeing your contributions. Please enjoy looking back over #MusicHallVarietyDay posts on here and on other social media platforms.
A film made during the BMHS visit to the Clapham Grand in March 2025 - the Grand celebrates it's 125th anniversary this year #MHVD2025 #MusicHallVarietyDay
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Music hall star and male impersonator, Vesta Tilley, dressed as a curate, offering a tray of tea.
"More tea, vicar?" Vesta Tilley is dressed as a curate, offering tea on a tray following the theme of food and drink for #MusicHallVarietyDay #MHVD2025
On #MusicHallVarietyDay here are six treasured possessions on the theme of #FoodandDrink
6/6: Show’s over for another year. A well-deserved drink with Jean Curley (Wilson and Keppel’s final Betty), Joe Keppel and Jack Wilson. Cheers!
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Wonderful #MusicHallVarietyDay 2025 walk - which ended with a very special treat - a look around what was Springthorpe’s Music Hall. Much thanks to Drawing Projects Scotland for the warm welcome!
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What are you having for your dinner? This man - from Clapham - is very hungry. Anyone know why he's hungry and what's going on in Clapham?
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All Together Now! 🎶🎶 poor cat! 🙀😿
‘Oh, that Gorgonzola cheese
It wasn't over healthy I suppose
For the old tomcat fell a corpse upon the mat
When the “Niff” got up its nose’
Oh! That Gorgonzola Cheese Harry Champion 1894
Anyone for sausages? #MusicHallVarietyDay #FoodandDrink. These are from the Harry Harper/Lennox Collection in our archive. Harry was a Scottish variety comic. There are also musical fingers in this collection!
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On #MusicHallVarietyDay here are six treasured possessions on the theme of #FoodandDrink
5/6: Food and drink aplenty on a Dinner For One paper serviette. Freddie Frinton and May Warden in this 1960s sketch, largely forgotten in the UK but a New Year’s Eve tradition over much of Europe.
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Here are Lily Harold and Mimi St Cyr on magic lantern slides.
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Biscuit or bun with your tea?
Florrie Forde preferred doughnuts with jam. This 1924 “comedy chorus song of the year” was personalised by the owner of this sheet music, now in our archive.
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Tea and a stroll, anyone? In 1902, Marie Lloyd introduced the playful parody “The Bond Street Tea-Walk”, turning genteel tea-taking into a Music Hall 'scena' (or sketch) - “The Tea-Walk takes the tea-cake ev'ry time!” #MusicHallVarietyDay #FoodandDrink
On #MusicHallVarietyDay here are six treasured possessions on the theme of #FoodandDrink
4/6: Fancy an aperitif in a set of What’s My Line glasses? Featuring Terry-Thomas, Zoe Gail, Josephine Douglas, Arthur Askey, David Nixon & Carole Carr.
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The menu shows how French cuisine remained the height of fashion & sophistication. How many oysters and turbot were consumed at such fancy Music Hall events, washed down by consommé, a sorbet grenade & a 'Bombe Alexandra'?
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In November 1932, my grandmother Norah, 24, attended the Grand Order of the Water Rats Ball at the Park Lane Hotel with her Uncle Albert Egbert and Aunt Daisy Dormer. The evening's entertainment, 'Rats in the Attic or Rushonanoffski', was written by Will Hay & Marriott Edgar #MusicHallVarietyDay
Throwback to 2024…
This time last year we unveiled a Blue Plaque at the Batley Variety Club site, honouring founder James Corrigan. The unveiling was led by Billy Pearce with the indomitable Maureen Prest by his side
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Next up - Wilton’s Music Hall and Ada Reeve. #MusicHallVarietyDay #MHVD202 @musichallsociety.bsky.social
A version of a familiar Sickert music hall painting, this time on a fan. On show at the Museum of Fans in Greenwich, where the current exhibition is about fans and the theatre.
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On #MusicHallVarietyDay here are six treasured possessions on the theme of #FoodandDrink
3/6: Lunch at a ‘mood food’ restaurant – written by me for Chris Emmett and birthday boy Roy Hudd in a 2001 News Huddlines. Hear the full sketch (starting at 17:18) here archive.org/details/the-...
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It’s WORDSEARCH time! Think you’ve been paying attention? Our 2025 puzzle is trickier than ever, with clues hidden in today’s posts. Solution revealed tomorrow…
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Dan Leno as Mother Goose at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1902.
1893 programme for the Canterbury Theatre of Varieties (or Canterbury Music Hall). Situated on 143 Westminster Bridge Road, it became one of London's most famous music halls, established in 1849 by Charles Morton. There are illustrations of the hall with admission prices, the interior and featured star of the period.
On Music Hall Variety Day here's an 1893 programme for the Canterbury Theatre of Varieties, one of Lambeth's famous music halls. Also Dan Leno performer & celebrated comedian who lived in Clapham shown here as 'Mother Goose' in 1902. @youngalison.bsky.social
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Music Hall tokens to be exchanged for food and drink inside the hall. @musichallsociety.bsky.social #MusicHallVarietyDay #MHVD2025
Is it too early for a champagne tipple?
“Champagne Charlie” (1866) earned George Leybourne his famous nickname. Sadly, Charlie drank more than he sang — Leybourne died at just 42.
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Today’s the day! #MusicHallVarietyDay 2025!
Join us tonight for an introduction and rare screening of Laurel & Hardy’s classic 1927 short ‘Duck Soup’.
Free but booking required! linktr.ee/dundeemusich...
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Generously supported by @musichallsociety.bsky.social
Today’s the day! #MusicHallVarietyDay 2025!
It’s Sunny Dundee today, ideal for a music hall walk with a very special treat at the end! 😉
Free but booking required! linktr.ee/dundeemusich...
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